Shorter Michael Gerson: "I am outraged that Barack Obama would suggest that Republicans support any of the consequences of the long-held policies of the Republican Party." ...see also. As for Gerson's assertion that Obama is building a "strawman" when he notes that Republicans "believe that...
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I have a piece up at the Prospect looking at how abortion law has evolved in the post-Roe period. To expand on a couple points: I wrote a little bit.
Roe v. Wade turns 40 today. This seems like a good opportunity to address some of the false things that are routinely said about it: Roe is unpopular. This is.
I love Barnwell's reversal of Brady's career, showing how easy it is to prove that someone isn't "clutch." By the way, speaking of 2006 and narratives, how about we give it up for Mr. Marty Schottenheimer? I mean, yes, he did sometimes get too conservative...
I haven't written about the revelations that have shocked nobody except Buzz Bissinger, in part because I can't claim to have ever cared about him in the first place. (As.
Krugman: On the day President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, an exuberant Vice President Biden famously pronounced the reform a “big something deal” — except that he.
I would take the 49ers -4 and, although I would expect New England to win narrowly, the Ravens +9 (just too many points.) And to state the obvious, Harbaugh really deserves a lot of credit for the gutty decision to go to Kaepernick. I really...
Ah, Bobo -- your commitment do bothsidesdoitism really can produce comedy gold: “He’s already started with a perfectly designed gun control package, inviting a long battle with the N.R.A. over.
You may remember Damon Linker from since Centrist* Comedy Classics as "we must burn down reproductive freedom in order to save it." Today, he's back with assertions that Matthew Yglesias.
Apparently Tina Brown's latest idea is to get in on the HuffPo's immunization trooferism racket. Well, at least the author isn't married to a racist assh...er, wait.
I suppose it may not be sporting of us to pick on Meacham twice. But I can't stop staring at the assertion that the key to Jefferson's political success was.
Irin Carmon is making sense: Less than a day into the Manti Te’o revelations, we’ve heard more about a fake dead girlfriend of a Notre Dame football player than a.